_Wrestling_60Kg_Freestyle%2c_at_Indira_Gandhi_Stadium%2c_in_New_Delhi_on_October_09%2c_2010.jpg) Dutt at the2010 Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname(s) | Yogi, Pahalwan Ji[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1982-11-02)2 November 1982 (age 43) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yogeshwar Dutt (born 2 November 1982) is a former Indianwrestler. At the2012 London Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the60 kg freestyle event.[4][5] He was conferred theArjuna Award in 2009,Khel Ratna in 2012 and thePadma Shri in 2013 by theGovernment of India.[6][7]
Dutt was born in Bhainswal Kalan village inSonipat district ofHaryana.[2][8] He first started wrestling at the age of eight in his native village and idolised Balraj Pehlwan. He was trained by coach Ramphal.[8] Dutt is avegetarian.[9]
Yogeshwar had lost his father on 3 August 2006 just nine days before he boarded the flight to Doha for theAsian Games.[10] He also sustained a knee injury, but despite all the emotional and physical trauma he managed to win the bronze in the60 kg category at the15th Asian Games atDoha.[11]
At the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, Yogeshwar overcame a career-threatening knee injury to win the 60 kg title. On his way to the final, Yogeshwar went past AustralianFarzad Tarash (16–0, 17–0), South African Marius Loots (7–1) and England'sSasha Madyarchyk (4–4, 8–0) before winning the gold.[12]
On 12 August 2012, Dutt provided a late boost to India's medals tally in the2012 London Olympics by claiming a bronze in theMen's freestyle 60 kg, becoming only the third Indian wrestler to win an Olympic medal afterK D Jadhav in 1952 andSushil Kumar in 2008 and 2012.
He had defeated North KoreanRi Jong-Myong in the bronze medal bout thus winning the fifth medal for Indian contingent at the London Olympics 2012.
Earlier, Yogeshwar qualified for the 2012 Olympics by winning a silver medal at an Asian qualification tournament inAstana,Kazakhstan where he lost to IranianMasoud Esmaeilpour (2–3, 0–1) in the final.
At the Olympics he lost to the RussianB Kudukhov 1–0, 2–0 and was knocked out in the pre-quarterfinal round. He got a chance to contest in the repechage rounds as Kudukhov reached the finals of the event.
In his first repechage round he went on to beatFranklin Gómez of Puerto Rico with a score of 1–0, 1–0. He got lucky against his opponent, winning the toss on both the occasions to earn a clinch position. Yogeshwar then scored 7–5 to beatMasoud Esmaeilpour with an aggregate of counted points 3–1 in Repechage Round 2. Esmaeilpour had beaten Yogeshwar at the Asian qualifications earlier that year.
He finally beat his North Korean opponent to clinch the bronze medal (0–1, 1–0, 6–0). He was exceptional in the last round, and clinched it in just 1:02 minutes.[13]
Yogeshwar Dutt won the gold medal in the men's 65 kg freestyle category by beating Canada's Jevon Balfour 10–0 in the finals.
Yogeshwar had earlier beaten Alex Gladkov of Scotland 4–0 in the pre-quarters and then easily defeated another Scottish wrestler Gareth Jones in the quarterfinals by employing his trademark Fitele (leg twisting) technique that he had used while winning the bronze medal at the2012 London Olympics. In the semi-finals, Yogeshwar successfully used his favourite technique again to get the better of Sri Lanka's Chamara Perera in just two minutes and three seconds. Yogeshwar won with a 0–5 verdict after taking a 10–0 lead on technical points.[14]
Yogeshwar Dutt won the Gold in the 65 kg freestyle wrestling category by defeatingZalimkhan Yusupov ofTajikistan in the final at theAsian games 2014. Dutt won a closely fought final 1–0. Earlier, he defeated the opponent from China in the semi-final by Fall in another closely fought bout in which Dutt was trailing almost until the end. He defeated Jinhyok Kang ofNorth Korea in the quarterfinal.[15]
In 2015, he was clubbed into the 'Icon' category by Haryana Hammers[16] – one of the six teams playing under the first edition of Pro Wrestling League (PWL), which was held from 10 to 27 December in six Indian cities.[17]
Dutt joinedBharatiya Janata Party in September 2019.[18]
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1954–1958:67 kg • 1962–1966:70 kg • 1970–1994:68 kg • 1998:69 kg • 2002–2010:66 kg • 2014–present:65 kg | |
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